SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation Release 3.0

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1050395· OSTI ID:1050395

Dobson, Jonathan D ^[1]; Kuehn, Jeffery A ^[1]; Poole, Stephen W ^[1]; Hodson, Stephen W ^[1]; Glandon, Steven R ^[1]; Reister, David B ^[1]; Lewkow, Nicholas R ^[1]; Peek, Jacob T ^[1]

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1. ORNL

As high performance computing technology progresses toward the progressively more extreme scales required to address critical computational problems of both national and global interest, power and cooling for these extreme scale systems is becoming a growing concern. A standardized methodology for testing system requirements under maximal system load and validating system environmental capability to meet those requirements is critical to maintaining system stability and minimizing power and cooling risks for high end data centers. Moreover, accurate testing permits the high end data center to avoid issues of under- or over-provisioning power and cooling capacity saving resources and mitigating hazards. Previous approaches to such testing have employed an ad hoc collection of tools, which have been anecdotally perceived to produce a heavy system load. In this report, we present SystemBurn, a software tool engineered to allow a system user to methodically create a maximal system load on large scale systems for the purposes of testing and validation.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1050395
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2012/386; 400890000; TRN: US201218%%998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
CAPACITY
DESIGN
PERFORMANCE
STABILITY
TESTING
VALIDATION
COMPUTERS
COMPUTER CODES
PROGRAMMING
systemburn
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